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Conservative wins poll

Felipe Calderon

Mexico City: Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon has won the final official count of Mexico's presidential poll by a razor-thin margin but his main rival, the leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has vowed to contest the result. With 99.56 per cent of the vote counted, Mr. Calderon had 35.82 per cent, Mr. Lopez Obrador 35.37 per cent with three other candidates sharing the remainder. ``We cannot accept these results,'' Mr. Lopez Obrador said at his campaign headquarters. The charismatic champion of Mexico's downtrodden said he would take his claim that the election was full of irregularities to the electoral tribunal within the four days as allowed.

— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

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